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Xiao Peng was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, Li Shuhe thought he was angry, so he said everything without thinking about anything else.

"I actually didn't want to disturb my uncle and aunt." Li Shuhe took Xiao Peng's hand and sighed, "I have a classmate who is a graduate student of Shanghai University and he wants to come to Shihe Group for an internship. In the dormitory, I went to the dormitory to talk to him about things."

It was already noon after the conversation, and Li Shuhe was walking alone on the campus of Shangda University, feeling that this is the place where Xiao Peng grew up when he was a child.Although it is still in the middle of the year, there are still students who do not go home, either alone or with their companions, walking hurriedly on the campus.

Perhaps this is the predestined fate, Li Shuhe walked to an old yard, and saw an old woman resting with a few plastic bags beside her.The bag was full, and it looked heavy. The old woman was not tall but she had a very temperament, and her features were very delicate. I think she was an elegant woman when she was young, but this delicate face was always familiar. feel.

He walked up to him in a strange way and asked, "Do you need help?"

The old woman looked up at him, then smiled and said, "Then I will trouble you!"

Li Shuhe bent down and picked up all the bags on the ground, and the woman couldn't help laughing: "Oh! Young people have strength! They are much stronger than an old woman like me!"

Li Shuhe smiled embarrassedly: "Where do you live? I'll take you back!"

The woman pointed to the front: "It's the building in front."

Li Shuhe walked and chatted with the old lady, and the old lady asked him: "Why don't you go home during the Chinese New Year? Are you a graduate student or a doctoral student?"

Li Shuhe smiled awkwardly: "No, I'm already working, and I'm here to find a classmate."

"Oh!" The old lady nodded, "It's good to have a job, young man! It's good to have a career earlier!"

Li Shuhe smiled slightly: "Are you a teacher at Shangda University?"

"Yes." The old lady smiled, "I have been teaching for a lifetime!"

Li Shuhe listened silently, and seemingly casually said: "What a coincidence, the parents of the colleague who lives with me are also teachers of Shangda."

The old lady raised her eyebrows in surprise: "Oh! That's a coincidence, what's your colleague's last name? Maybe his parents live here too!"

Li Shuhe stopped in his tracks, and the old lady followed him and looked at him puzzled, only to hear him say with a smile: "My colleague's surname is Xiao, and his name is Xiao Peng."

The old lady's eyes widened in surprise, her mouth was slightly open and she could not make a sound. She put her hands in front of her suddenly, but she couldn't restrain his trembling no matter what.

Xiao's mother pulled Li Shuhe excitedly and invited him to go home with her. This was what Li Shuhe wanted, and the old lady went home without thinking about it.

Xiao's mother held Li Shuhe's arm all the way, her fingers trembling with excitement, but she said nothing all the way.

It was only at the end of the path that Xiao's mother said to Li Shuhe: "The third floor is our home. It's a bit high. I'll have to work hard for you."

"It's not hard." Li Shuhe quickly agreed, "It's all what I should do."

The old lady led Li Shuhe upstairs, and she opened the door after shaking her hand holding the key for a long time. As soon as she opened the door, she heard a male voice in the living room saying: "I have been shopping for vegetables for so long. I'm on my way to pick you up."

Xiao's mother didn't care about answering his words, so she greeted Li Shuhe: "Come in, come in, you don't need to change your shoes, come in!"

Hearing the stranger say thank you, Mr. Xiao took off his glasses in doubt, walked out of the living room with a newspaper and looked at the scene in front of him in doubt, then turned to ask the old lady: "Are you a graduate student or a doctoral student? ah?"

Xiao's mother cheerfully pulled Li Shuhe in: "Neither of them! This is Pengpeng's friend!"

Li Shuhe immediately bowed obediently and sensiblely to the old man: "Hi Uncle! My name is Li Shuhe, and I am Xiao Peng's friend."

Papa Xiao immediately frowned: "Friend? What friend?"

Li Shuhe didn't know how to explain the question in this question, and Xiao's father said dissatisfiedly: "What about others? Why didn't you come back by yourself?"

The questioning was a bit aggressive, but before Li Shuhe could figure out how to answer it, Xiao’s mother, who had put the bought vegetables into the kitchen, came out, and said with a displeased face: “You have to say if my son doesn’t come back, now a friend is coming You have to say again after visiting, I don’t understand what you are thinking!”

After being robbed, the old man consciously fell silent and sat back on the sofa, picked up the newspaper and read it again.

The atmosphere was slightly awkward, Xiao's mother poured a cup of hot water for Li Shuhe, pulled him to sit on the couch in the living room and began to talk.

"I was so excited along the way that I didn't know what to say." The old lady smiled shyly, "Have some tea and take a rest."

Of course Li Shuhe understood what the old man wanted to know, so he continued to explain what Xiao’s father said just now: “It’s not that Teacher Xiao doesn’t want to come back, he’s working a little far away in Lincheng now. My family happens to live in Shanghai, and I’m here today to find a classmate. It was a coincidence that I met Aunt Xiao."

Mr. Xiao sat on the side holding up the newspaper, glanced at Li Shuhe lightly, and then looked back at the newspaper.

Li Shuhe is well-behaved and very talkative. Mother Xiao seemed to like him very much, and took his hand and said, "Pengpeng is in Lincheng...it's quite far away, but young people have to work. We all understand!"

Li Shuhe grabbed Xiao's mother backhandedly, and said to her enthusiastically: "Aunt, don't you know? Our No. [-] Middle School is a key high school in Lincheng! Teacher Xiao is the most legendary teacher in the school! He just entered the school At that time, the class teacher who had been in charge for a year turned a parallel class into a key class, which was the first time he had encountered such a thing in the third middle school in so many years! The leaders and students all liked him!"

Xiao's mother's eyes turned red when she heard that, but there was a look of relief in her eyes, she patted the back of Li Shuhe's hand lightly and muttered to herself: "That's good, that's good, we can rest assured that he is doing well."

Although Xiao's father didn't participate in the chat the whole time, it can be seen that he was staring at the newspaper in a daze, obviously listening to them.Li Shuhe couldn't have imagined that they and Xiao Peng would be so incompatible with such a pair of highly educated, well-educated, gentle-tempered, hard-spoken, and soft-hearted old couples, and it was even more difficult to imagine how such a seemingly enlightened pair of parents could force Xiao Peng out of the house. depression.

"Xiao Li." Mother Xiao asked, "How old are you this year?"

Li Shuhe immediately came back to his senses: "Me? Er... 23."

Father Xiao who had been eavesdropping yelled in surprise: "So small?"

Xiao's mother was also a little surprised: "This... this is too small..."

Li Shuhe was stunned for a moment before realizing that they had misunderstood, so he said with a smile: "Yes, I was admitted to Lincheng No. [-] Middle School just after graduating from university last year. During the internship, Teacher Xiao took me, and I was led by him. The interns who came out."

"Ah?" Xiao's mother was a little embarrassed and disappointed, "I thought you were...then, does this mean that Pengpeng really hasn't come back?" She thought it was because her son didn't dare to go home directly, so she asked the child to come over to test To test their attitudes, she didn't think it was because she was thinking too much.

"He loves to come back or not!" Father Xiao threw the newspaper on the armrest of the sofa, angrily got up and went back to the room.

Li Shuhe was taken aback and quickly stood up to try to persuade him, but was dragged back to the sofa by Xiao's mother.

"Xiao Peng has always been very well-behaved. His childhood friends are also the children of colleagues around us. You are the first outsider to come to our house, so we thought you belonged to Peng Peng..." The old lady cut it off cautiously. Huatou, she is still not sure about the relationship between the young man in front of her and Xiao Peng, and she has to keep some secrets a little secret.

Li Shuhe naturally understood what she meant, so he said: "Ms. Xiao is my internship tutor and my roommate who lives with me. We are still colleagues and friends for the time being. Other relationships...I am working hard!" But he understood, he blinked his eyes playfully, the old lady was amused, but soon became sad again.

"I remember that when Xiao Peng confessed to us a few years ago, he was in company." Xiao's mother said hesitantly, "We don't know his situation even if he is not with us. You just graduated from university and you are so young. What a long heart you have!"

The implication was obvious, Xiao's mother was afraid that Xiao Peng would mess with him, and worried that Li Shuhe, a young man, would be hurt.

By this time, Li Shuhe couldn't figure it out more and more, and the attitude of Xiao's parents was far from what he imagined.With such an open-minded and generous parent, why did Xiao Peng dare not go home for so many years?

Li Shuhe said to Xiao's mother sincerely and seriously: "Auntie, you worry too much. Teacher Xiao was educated very well by you. He will never do what you worry about in his life."

Li Shuhe thought about it, and still decided to tell the story of Xiao Peng and Chu Wenhao: "The education Mr. Xiao has received since he was a child does not allow him to do things that violate morality. He is a dedicated teacher and a qualified friend. , This is an excellent colleague. Maybe it is because he is too good, God will let him suffer some misfortune, but don't worry, as long as I am by his side, everything will be over, and he will not suffer any more Already!"

Looking at the young boy who swears in front of her, Xiao's mother's mood is very complicated, so she said with red eyes: "I have been worried that this kind of relationship will not last long, no matter whether it is a man or a woman, life with only feelings is very difficult. Even if there is no child between a man and a woman, there are still legal constraints, and there is a bottom line to support once there is a conflict, but there is no same-sex relationship!"

"We just started to know that Peng Peng's sexual orientation is indeed unacceptable. Your Uncle Xiao's traditional concepts have been hit hard. I am worried that he will go astray because of the hardships of homosexuality. I am afraid that his life will be difficult in the future." Xiao Mom wiped the corners of her eyes, "We are all at this age, no matter what we have to have a process of acceptance. But who knows that after all these years, Peng Peng has never returned from this trip, and he is really determined not to We are here!"

"No!" Li Shuhe quickly explained, "It's not that Mr. Xiao doesn't want to come back. He thinks it's because you don't want to forgive him. He thinks it's his disobedience that made you angry! Mr. Xiao will never want you! He... He was sick at the time, and he couldn't come to see you, so how could he not want you?"

Mother Xiao's tears welled up, she thought of thousands of possibilities, but she never thought of this situation.Li Shuhe relayed what he heard from Xiong Weining to Mama Xiao, and when she saw her crying in distress, he took out a tissue and handed it over.

"This silly boy... has forced himself like this and won't come back!" The old lady took the tissue from Li Shuhe, sighed and wiped away her tears, "We don't know where he is all these years, and he didn't contact him. We are all children of our own family, as long as he lives well, what else is important?"

Li Shuhe squatted in front of Xiao's mother and whispered, the elderly parents sighed and smiled hard: "Xiao Li! Thank you for coming to see us, it is our wish for so many years."

Li Shuhe shook his head: "Auntie, don't say that, Mr. Xiao just took over a graduation class this year. When he finishes his work and has free time, this year's students will definitely come back to see you!" To Mother Xiao, "Look! This is a video I recorded during my internship. It's Teacher Xiao teaching the students! Don't worry, I'll accompany him to see you and Uncle Xiao when he finishes his work. !"

Xiao’s mother watched very seriously, as if she wanted to see every detail of Xiao Peng through the screen. In the video, Xiao Peng was serious and rigorous in class but still humorous. The students responded enthusiastically and the classroom atmosphere was very good. , Xiao's mother slightly curved her mouth into a gratified smile, but there were tears shining in her eyes.